It is bound to happen. Every computer has it’s death. But why O why must it be mine – again 🙁
I stubbornly refuse to give into the funk that is trying to suck me down the rabbit hole into the death star comprised of failed computer parts. The blue screen I suppose the color selection fits.
Perhaps I should call upon the borg? Oh ye wrong alternate sci fi world emmm
Yes I have the laptop with its tiny little keys and wireless access that is as reliable as an old tele with rabbit ears and tin foil.
Tonight my friends and I are going to go and hunt down hard drives with the hope that the recovery discs I made a few years ago will actually work. Seems HP sucks with this and the chance of success is fifty fifty. If I buy the discs I and the recovery discs dont work I am screwed. Cause the cheapest cpu only is more money than I have left. AUGH
Laptops should have bigger keys. Mistake one: I only have on the fly backup for my photos. So all else is toast,
Well wish me luck cause this laptop crap is not gonna work for long as my fingers are either too big or its keyboard is way to small. I was using a news reader in firefox so I have to go hunt down all the blog rss addys again LOL LOL
I so know better than to not back up the whole hard drive oh wells I get to have a clean start if all go well and the recovery discs work. If not the crashing sound you hear is the computer as it hits the ground after being tossed out the window along with the bath water.
Windows is like the Corvair — as shipped from the factory, it is unsafe at any speed. Backups should be easy to create, maintain, and restore. For Windows, that means picking up an external USB drive and some third-party software like Retrospect Express HD. At current prices, you’re looking at $150 for what I would consider a required upgrade to any Windows laptop.
I have a similar setup on BR’s Macbook. I plug in the external drive once a week or so, and it automatically copies out all changed files and settings.
With the dawn of the netbook, those keys are only getting smaller. The tablet PCs look promising. Ooo! Or maybe the Microsoft Surface!
yeah yeah yeah it is kind of like the duh thing now LOL I do have a backup running to a 1TeraByte drive but and here is where I blew it – I had not got around to backing up the whole hard drive – my opps.
I did all my photos, and some downloads but forgot the mail addresses etc and a few other things arr arr but as I can not access it right now I am not sure what is backed up on it.
my super duper xp machine is DEAD the RAID controller would be the main uh oh. oh know – it kills me cause I like xp over vista any day. Not to mention it was a really fast bells and whistles tower. way more bucks than I can afford to duplicate.
I donated to my buddy who builds pc’s up for folks that his wife finds housing for. Not a bad deal as these are people who have been homeless etc for a long time. the guy who is getting the one he is using the parts on is a Veteran from tent city. He tried but the crash scrambled the drives . …
Mac is the dream machine here awesome for photography applications but my budget is PC.
I was riding in a Corvair once and it caught on fire ;-o
My Windows XP computer is really a VMware virtual machine running on Linux configured to mirror the two installed hard drives. I can create an offline backup of the VM by burning the virtual disk files to DVD-R, and if either of the hard drives fail, Linux will let me know it is time to replace (no downtime). If something catastrophic happens, I can load the virtual disk images from the offline backup onto any computer with enough disk space and run the VM with VMware Player.
Disclaimer: I work for VMware.
Eh? No seriously I had my raid set up for speed not mirror RAID 0 (old school) silly me so the obvious one goes they all go. But the actual controller took the dump it seems. I brought my drives home so maybe I will get something off em.
Once upon a time I was really good about backups but now eh I forgot. I did get the nice external drive for that purpose but I only had it backing up my photos ;( that will teach me.
After much talking to myself – for what I do anymore computer wise I do not need all the bells and whistles. I surf the net, post process my photos, listen to music, etc. I do not play games anymore (xbox is for that now) and I do not have any work related task anymore.
I need simple LOL